g It 15 0n all hands agreed, That the Apoſtle is here ſpeaking of Believers communicating in the Sacrament of the Lord's Sup per ; by the Crp of blefſizz, he meaneth the Cup there which be {o calleth, becauie we in the raking of it bleſs the Lord, whogait his Son to dis for us, and Chriſt for that great love which he ſhew- ed in dying for us. We are faid to ſs ir, becauſe we by folem Prayer in the Conſecration of it, ſet it apart for that ſacred uk, and beg of God to bleſs it tro us. þ This Cup (fairh the Apoltk) 1s the Communion of rhe blood of Chriſt. The Cup is put For the Wine in the Cup (which js very ordinary) the Cp or 1 of Bl:n ynageth that Cup of Wine to which the bleſſing is aded, ot with waich in that holy Inſticucion we thankfully rememberthe Death of Chriſt, and bleſs his *Name for thar great mercy, and the Wine or Cup of Bleſſing , alſo here ſignifieth our Religiow AQion in drinking of that Cup of Wine fo bleſſed, This, fait he, is the Communion of the bleod of Chriſt, that is, it is an Adi whereby and wherein Chriſt communicates himſe!f and his Grate ro us, and wecommunicate our ſouls to him ; ſotht Chriſtaadb: lievers in thar Adtion havea mutual Communion one with another ; And as it 15 witch the one Element in that holy Sacrament, ſo1t alſo with the other. The Bread which the Miniſter breakerh ( cording to the Inſtitution and Example of Chriſt) for the Churci to make uſe of inthe Celebration of the Lord's Supper, that's their Altion in eating of that Bread ſo broken, anddividedamong them, 1s the Communion of the Body of Chriſt : an AXtion wit ; in Chriſtians have a Fellowſhip and Communion with Chriſt. 17 For * we being many, are one bread and one
dy & : for we are all partakers of that one bread /.
k Believers, though many, yet are one Body, anddeclaretie ſelves -ro beone Body myſtical, by their fellowſhip rogether in th Ocdinance of the Lord's Supper; as the Bread they there et! one Bread, though it be made up of many grains of Corn, wie come into the compoſition of that Loaf or piece of Bread whica fo broken, diſtributed, and eaten; and the Wine they drink 1501
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uſe of due means, which God hath appointed in order to that end, though he be alſo kept by the power of G:d unto ſalvation, 1 Pet, I. 5.
Cup, one Body of Wine, though ir be made up of many pi Jane 4 Grapes. ! And they declare themſelves to be on? Bo by their joyat partaking of chat one Bread,
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J H ; LCORINTHIFA MS ment to prove the unlawfulneſs of comniunicating Jus applied unto God s ſinners at.the Lords Table, becauſe we declare |< ' Body with thoſe thar communicate : but whether juſt diſpleaſure at the d) be cogent enough, I doubt ; for ove Body | 15 due to him alone. I 10 more than one Church, and that not inviſible, but } ger againſt thoſe who $3 as we only declare our ſelves to be fellow-members of ſhip of God bein » Church with thoſe with whom we partake in that Or- | ſaid he wil! no: give to another and the viſible Church may conſiſt of perſons that are $4- 8. Hence Divines obſer | with the good. So as, though undoubtedly ſcanda- | God 1n the ſecond Commandment, w <d perſons ought to be excluded from the holy Table, | ternal Werſhip of God, to deter men from the v Unbeliever hath a right to it : yet 1t may reaſonably d, whether thoſe that partake. with Unbelievers, do|1a many other Texts; it fignifieth. r ſelvesto be Unbelievers ; they only own themſelves | thing that he is very tender of, andt
ceſs, or vehemence, as
, nor B's praiſe ts graven imazes, If2, ve, Thar jealouſte is attribured to naich concerns the more ex. itolation of ir, | 20.& 5 9. &6. 15. and at the Worſhip of Gol is a hat his will is ro endure nc
Exod. 20. 5. YO Exod. 34. 14. Deur. q.
of that Church, wherein there are ſome Unbehievers. But Creature to ſhare with him ia ir, and thar his wrarh {hall flame of the Apoſtle is from hence to argue, That by a parity | againſt rhar man, that offers to make any Crea
hoſe that communicated with an idolatrous Afembly |» fices, declared themſelves by that a&ion to be one |1e1s he could fancy himſelf to be ſtronger than God; for Body with thofe TdoJaters. ] 19 Rchold Ifrael after the fleſh 2 : * are not they againſt him. Thus the Apoſt iich ear of the ſacrifices, partakers of the alrar ? ”.
1 I-ael after the fleſh, was the whole ſeed of Jacob, the whole of the Jewiſh Church ; for Believers only were 1ſra-lires atter
ar ture {uch a ſharer. w 50 that it is nor ſafe for any to do any thing of thar nature, wn , » 4 cs —
doth ir, muſt expeCt che power and ſtrengrh of God co be ——_—_
le hath perſwaded rhem' from eating meat ſacrificed ro Idols in the Idols Temple, from thz impiety of It, it being a Species of 1dolatry,againſt which God hath fignally re- vealed his wrath : he returns in the tollowing verſes ro an Ar.
9. 6. called the 1ſ-ael of God, Gal. 6. 16. » If in the |* et by which he had before dillwaded ic, Chap. 8. as ic was
Jewiſh Church mw —_ ate - = _ of eg _— non Gods Altar, did they nor by that at imanifeſt, that rhey SR - ww Members of the Jewiſh Church, and owned that God, to| _ 23 * All things are lawſul tor me x, but all (| hom thoſe Sacrifices were offered, and that way of Worſhip by | 41 not expedient : all things are lawſul for me, b which God was fo worſhipped. By the ſame reaſon theſe Cerinrh;- things edifie nor Yo 11; earing of the flcſh of thoſe Beaſts in the Idols Temple, which 1:4 been offered unto Idols, did by that a& declaretheir owning «f the Idol, and that idolatrous Worſhip which had been there per- famed, and were really partakers of the idolatrous Altar.
i9 What fay I chen? * that the idol is any thing, or|char to ear mear offered to Idolsin the Idols Temple, was that which is ſacrificed to 1dols 1s any thing ? 0. |
1 1 do not by this contradi& what before ſaid, nor now affirm, _= (as that univerſal Particle muſt be that an Idol is any thing, or the Sacrifices offered to it any thing. | titude of Scriptures.) $0 as the ſenſe is,
againſt Charity, and the dut
y of Love, ia which they were indebr. ed to their Brethren. :
x All things here muſt neceſſarily ſignifie 1:any chin 4 ; ft n F: 7, 27, Or at leaſt (as ſome think) all thoſe things Þ haveipoken of, to eat mear offerca to Idols, &c. But if we interpret it in the latter ſenſe, it is nor
true without limitations; for the A poltle had but now determined,
ro have interpret a2 by interpreted in a great There are many things